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Open-source alternatives to Splunk

3 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Splunk. Quickwit is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

2 / 3
Pushed in the last 90 days
0 / 3
With a container command
2 / 3
Permissive licence
Splunk’s own site ↗

Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Splunk
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Quickwit11,725ActivePermissive○Rust
Graylog8,156ActiveNot identified○Java
Matano1,700QuietPermissive○Rust

Each one, briefly

  • Quickwit11,725 stars · permissive · active

    Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability

    Also replaces Elasticsearch

  • Graylog8,156 stars · not identified · active

    Free and open log management

  • Matano1,700 stars · permissive · quiet

    Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS

    Also replaces Elasticsearch, Panther

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Splunk comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Splunk. Browse every open-source alternative.